I don’t understand the modlog behaviour and didn’t find any posts explaining it in a search, so I’m hoping someone more familiar with the fediverse backend(s) can explain it. General answers would be great, but I’ll put the specific context I’m not understanding as well in case that’s relevant:
context
I’m trying to find the reason a specific comment by another user was removed, but the modlog on piefed.zip for that user is empty. I figured that just meant mod actions don’t federate, which makes sense, but I also don’t see the removal in the lemmy.world modlog (the instance for both that user and the community the comment was in). If mod actions don’t federate then I assume it can’t be in the modlog of some third unrelated instance, which seems to rule out all other options and shows my understanding of the situation is clearly wrong in some way. I’m not linking the user or the post to try to avoid dogpiling of the user and/or the mod, and to keep the focus on the question rather than the comment’s content, but if it’s somehow relevant please let me know
Very poorly.
mod logs Imo shouldn’t be used as an accurate source of current information because they very commonly will be desynced/not up to date. But it seems to be by an instance by instance basis, and sometimes even a community by community.
what is supposed to happen is a mod action is performed and then logged. And then instances can then see that action, but it desyncs constantly
as you’ve experienced firsthand, it can be quite useless at times, especially if you’re looking for information that was performed somewhat recently with somewhat recent being within the last couple days.